[Like he's said before, she's tough. She takes the pain like a champ and he appreciates it. She even holds still for him until he's finished and he stops the second he is, taking his hands away so she can have some time to recover. He'll work on her knee in a minute but - one thing at a time.]

Hm? [Her question has him looking up and for a minute it feels like she's asking him about someone else's life. But then he exhales and no, its his life and he nods.] What I could. They had extra courses you could take, outside of the required ones. I thought, if I was going to be a long range pilot, than I should learn everything I could. Out there - its just your small group to rely on if anything goes wrong and I thought the more positions I could help with, the safer our group would be. [It's skirting close to mentioning the mission itself, and her brother and father, and he's not sure she wants to go there. So he shrugs.] Took some courses in food prep too. But trust me, I'm a better nurse.